One Meeting Minute Thought for Your Week You’ve heard the standard advice about how to set meeting ground rules. And, you’ve probably been in meetings where the “cookie cutter” ground rules the leader announces clearly aren’t going to work. In fact, they make you want to pat your coworker on the head and tell them, …
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One Meeting Minute Thought for Your Week It may not seem natural, but your best first step to deal with a rambler in your meeting is to empathize with them. Because, despite being annoying and disruptive, the person using too many words is still exactly that – a real person. And, they need you to …
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One Meeting Minute Thought for Your Week The best leaders know how to think like an owner, even when they’re an employee and not the actual owner of the business. This mindset serves them well and it will benefit you too in all areas of your work – including your meetings. But, how do owners …
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One Meeting Minute Thought for Your Week When you’re striving to be an effective meeting leader, you may feel like you have to be perfect. You probably think you have to have all the essential elements of a productive, effective meeting in place. And, I may even be partly to blame. When you’re reading each …
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One Meeting Minute Thought for Your Week It’s hard to know how to get the right people in your meetings. But using these 7 roles to create your participant list will make this challenging task significantly easier. Because you must have the right People in your meetings to accomplish the Purpose you’ve defined for your …
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One Meeting Minute Thought for Your Week No one wants to lead a team with victim mentality. Unfortunately, well-meaning leaders often ask a question that invites this crippling mindset. Here’s how to avoid this common mistake. Many business leaders ask their teams this question during team meetings: “What obstacles are holding you back?” It’s a …
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One Meeting Minute Thought for Your Week Trust is essential for healthy human relationships. And, trust is the foundation for productive, effective meetings too. But trust is a challenging, complex topic. Knowing who to trust as well as when and how much to trust them is complicated. Don’t let that discourage you though. You can …
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One Meeting Minute Thought for Your Week We all know most meetings can be frustrating. So you want to do everything you can to reduce frustration in YOUR meetings. And, being clear on the type of work you need to do in a meeting is critical to achieving this goal. Because unless everyone’s aligned on this, …
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One Meeting Minute Thought for Your Week Do you support diversity, equity, and inclusion and want to make your meetings more inclusive? If you do, try these 3 simple tips. 1. Make your data visualizations meaningful for those who are color blind. Your meeting presentations are an easy place to start because not everyone sees …
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One Meeting Minute Thought for Your Week Workplace anxiety is at an all-time high. Provide this 1 thing in your meetings to make the problem better not worse. Give the people in your meetings CLARITY. Anxiety is fueled by confusion. And, most meetings do little to reduce confusion. In fact, too many meetings introduce MORE …
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